The morning news. [volume] (Savannah, Ga.) 1887-1900, 1887-12-04
GERMANY ON HER GUARD
RUSSIAN UTTERANCES STILL VERY
HOSTILE

The Gear Apparently Unable to Over
come the Influence of the Anti
Teutonic arty in His Empire -
Sadi-Carnot Looked Upon as Man
Not to be Feared.
Copyright 1887 by The New York Associated
P,eSsl
BERLIN, Dec. 8. Official and diplomatic
circles in Berlin were absorbed in to-day's
Developments in Paris, but public interest
was not at all strained. An increasing
stream of kilograms poured into the foreign
office, and details of the voting at Yer
sailles were sent without delay TO Fried
richsruhe The election of NJ. Sadi-Carnot
is better received in official circles than
would have been that of M. De
Freycinet or NJ. Ferry. The
new President is considered to be
a feeble man, and the one man who would
be unwilling to consent to complications
which might bring about European war
1t is also believed that he will be unable to
make alliances against Germany. His per
sonal preferences are for a neutral, pacific
policy, and be will try TO govern through
a Ministry with the same tendencies. Tele-
grams received here from the German
Embassy at Paris record the crafty
ing fact that though it was
considered necessary TO guard the ap-
proaches to the Embassy, everything
was peaceful during the excitement The
utter absence of any anti-German demon
stration, the efforts of NJ. DeRoulede and
others to provoke patriotic ebulhtion finding
no response is raising the hopes of a pro
longeC assuagement of the revanche senti-
ment.
RUSSIA STILL MENACING.
On the side of Russia the situation still
continues grave. The Gar has failed to
gain control of the anti -Teutonic party, and
| il he himself is convinced of the friendly in
| tentions of the German govern
ment, he has been unable to per-
suade a majority in the Imperial
| Council that some practical measures
are necessary to restore an entente. In the
meantime, the anti-German personnel in
| the Ministry remains in power, and the or
| der of NJ de Giers, instructing the press TO
cease attacking Germany is defied. An
| instance of the disregard of the order is
| contained in an article in the military Or
| gan, the Sect, which declares the statement
| that the Car had received forged letters
misrepresenting German policy to be mere
nonsense, and that the election of Prince
| Ferdinand to the Bulgarian throne was not
| the work of Orleanist intrigue. but of
| Prince Bismarck, who caused the Emperor
| TO receive Prince Ferdinand at Berlin on the
very day the Gar informed the German
| government that the Prince of Mingrelia
had been nominated to the Bulgarian
| throne.
| In a similar strain the Moscow Gazette
vaunts the Russian determination never to
| cultivate an entente until Germany ceases
irving to dominate EUROPE. Russia" /" says
| the Gazette, ''can tolerate no predominance,
requires no alliance, and will not allow her
self to be duped."
| TOO HOSTILE TO BECOME FRIENDLY.
The language of the inspired Russian
| press indicates beyond mistake that the
| price of renewal of cordial relations with
| Berlin remains beyond the power or inclina-
| tion of the government to grant. The per-
sistent hostility of official circles at st.
Petersburg deters further approaches by
Prince Bismarck toward the harmony dis
| cussed in his interviews with the Car
| and Count Schouvalotf in Berlin. Count
Herbert Bismarck would have gone to st.
| Petersburg on a special mission to clear up
| the Misrepresentation of German policy
arising from the Cabal of the Orleanists
with the anti-Teutonic Court party, but as
the evidence of treachery already disclosed
to the Gar has been unavailing, the mis-
| sion was abandoned.
| FIVE-YEAR TERMS.
The severest contest during the session of
| the Reichstag will be that over the bill
| making the legislative period five instead of
| three years. Although brought in by the
leaders of the Conservatives and National
Liberals, the bill is practically a govern
ment affair. Official organs support the
proposal strongly on the ground that it will
relieve the people of the disturbing infiu-
| ences of often recurring elections, while
| Irrxy iD6pppn6pnpa
to Parliament. The Progressionists
| denounce the measure as assailing
| the prerogative of the electors and weaken
ing Che nations voice in the councils of the
government There will be q fierce and en-
| venomed fight before the measure passes,
but it will pass with a solid majority about
| eoualing the septennate vote The relative
strength of the parties differs little from
what it was at the beginning of the last
session. The Conservatives number 117,
the Clericals 10l, the National Liberals 90,
the Poles 13, the Progressists "a, the
Socialists II, and the Independents, in
cluding the Alsatians, o. No combination
can defeat any bill having the support of
the government groups
THE CROWN PRINCE BETTER.
The latest bulletin from San Reno an
nounces that the Crown Prince drove out to-
| day in a closed carriage, the weather being
wet. There has been decided diminution
of the congestion of his larynx in the last
few days, and nothing indicates return OF
the serious symptoms which appeared at the
end of October. Private reports of the
Crown Princes condition concur with the
official ones The health Of the Crown
Prince is wonderful. His sleep is sound and
undisturbed his appetite good and his mind
clear and buoyant. The continuance Of
favorable reports has given rise to public
! hone that the Princes case is not so deS-
perate as was thought. Rumors prevail
that the doctors have been shaken in their
opinion as to the true character of the
disease, and begin to think that the growth
is not cancerous.